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Banded Phintella
Phintella vittata
Phintella vittata is a species of jumping spider in the genus Phintella. It has a wide distribution across Asia, ranging from India and Nepal through China to the Philippines, and is notable for being the first animal known to be capable of seeing ultraviolet B light.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 154357.